Christophe Maroun 🐌

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Amazon fait une croix sur le Québec et supprime 1700 emplois Le géant américain du commerce en ligne fermera ses entrepôts et ses centres de tri « dans les deux prochains mois », selon nos informations.

Amazon is shutting down its services in Quebec because 2 out of the 7 factories they have there unionized.

They are doing this bcs they are worried other branches unionize, and I hope they do. They cannot shut them all.

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): A Critical Analysis, with a Focus on Agriculture, Land, and Food | National Farmers Union Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) pose significant risks to food security, biodiversity, and climate goals while failing to address aviation’s true emissions challenge. The report highlights the trade...

This introduction on Sustainable Aviation Fuel from the National Farmers Union goes hard:

“any plan to fuel a doubling of air travel from the planet’s oversubscribed land reveals an ignorance of the magnitude by which we have already transgressed planetary boundaries” www.nfu.ca/publications...

Nearly all white phosphorus strikes by #Israel in South #Lebanon this past year fall within recently occupied Lebanese territories, as verified and geolocated by our team. This pattern of deliberate contamination blocks displaced residents from safely reclaiming their lands.

Damascus’s joy and worry as people wonder: What happens after al-Assad? People at Bashar al-Assad’s villa in the Syrian capital celebrate but also express concern over Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

My first story from Damascus is out - on the celebratory mood in the Syrian capital on Monday

With photos from Raghed Waked

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May all authoritarian regimes fall.

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Sowing Bitter Seeds A little-known treaty set up by a handful of European countries threatens smallholder farmers

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On why seed sovereignty is so important today more than ever...

Ceasefire in Lebanon does not mean that the Israelis have left. Here is an Israeli tank casually pointing at a Lebanese man in front of it in southern Lebanon.

Ceasefire between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel: What to know A ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel is one step closer, but what are the details and will it hold?

My latest for Al Jazeera on what the ceasefire agreement between #Hezbollah and #Israel entails and whether it will hold.

Here's all you need to know.

#Lebanon

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Moments after Biden announces a ceasefire, three Israeli air strikes could be heard across Beirut.

That contradiction perfectly epitomizes the disconnect between Washington's rhetoric, Israel's behavior and the frightening reality for civilians on the ground.

“In my opinion, I will say nowhere [is safe], Israel is always changing [targets],” 71-year-old cobbler, Abou Ali said. “Maybe it hits here or there or Achrafieh, or Sabra or the camps. Nobody knows anything.”

Netanyahu makes it clear in his speech that he will link a ceasefire in Lebanon with even more horrors inflicted on Gaza

Farmer autonomy is a 🔑 component of food sovereignty. When farmers have control over their production they can make decisions that prioritize sustainability, social justice and their communities. Creating more diverse and resilient food systems, less vulnerable to shocks and climate change.

That’s why #FoodSovereignty and #FarmerAutonomy should be central for Lebanon’s agricultural and food system in general and to any potential recovery plan in particular.

Farmers, 25% of the workforce in rural areas and already impoverished by the country’s exonomic crisis, are bearing the biggest share of the economic losses associated to the relentless bombing of agricultural land and infrastructure, and indiscriminate destruction of their livelihoods.

The 2024 Israeli War on Lebanon: A Devastating Blow to Agriculture and the Environment

“Beyond the immediate destruction caused by fire, the agricultural sector faces unprecedented challenges. Damage to crops and orchards is compounded by the disruption of critical irrigation infrastructure.”

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Rethinking our current food systems becomes all the more important when the country’s agricultural production capacity is being systematically targeted by Israel

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I recently wrote an article highlighting, among other things, the importance of seed sovereignty and farmer autonomy in Lebanon, and how heirloom seed preservation and propagation initiatives can help to build resilience against a changing climate.

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Hello! Good to see you too!

I guess that's me give or take 😬

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Before moving to Canada I was the Environmental Justice Program Manager at the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Beirut Office. Where I worked along with diverse local and regional civil society partners on agroecology, food sovereignty, environmental governance, climate justice and eco-feminism.

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I have previously worked on several #EnvironmentalJustice research projects such as the EJAtlas.org and Acknowl-EJ analyzing the transformative potential of community responses
to extractivism and alternatives born from resistance.

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Christophe Maroun Visit the post for more.

I also write from time to time (which is an overstatement already). You can find some of my work here: christophemaroun.wordpress.com

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I have a BSc in Environmental Health from the American University in Beirut and studied political ecology during my Master's at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I'll start a PhD in Geography at Université de Montréal in January 2025 on agriculture and agroecology initiatives in Lebanon.

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Hello #BlueSky!

Here's a bit about me. Wasn't very active over on the other website so maybe I'll try my hand at this one here.

I'm a Lebanese researcher currently based in Montréal interested in topics like political ecology, environmental justice, agroecology and food sovereignty.

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